Quotes about atheism
children men atheism
Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.
communication years atheism
Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less. Al Ries
atheism movement goes-on
The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
mind atheism has-beens
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?
believe thinking atheism
But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.
men forever atheism
Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?
religious atheism world
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
years atheism done
We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.
doubt atheism term
The word heretic ought to be a term of honour... Charles Bradlaugh
funeral atheism body
[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.
fate humanity atheism
Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible doctrine that eternal torment is the probable fate of the great majority of the human family?
atheism affirmation made
Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.
atheism public-opinion court
There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.
atheism liberty chiefs
Liberty's chief foe is theology.
atheism doe without-god
Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.
men atheism age
The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.
atheism form mere
A mere society form of Atheism.
country believe atheism
If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.
atheism gains miserable
Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?
long people atheism
No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.
ideas atheism would-be
I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.
atheist effort atheism
Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.
philosophy progress atheism
All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom. Charles Sanders Peirce
religion atheism humanist
The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.' Charles M. Schulz
darkness atheism mystery
If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded Charles Hodge
atheism foxholes chaplains
There's a Chaplain who never visited the front. Kurt Vonnegut
atheism reign professors
I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith. William Shakespeare
prayer atheism way
His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.
christian atheism faces
Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces.
believe atheism might
Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?" Cal Thomas
believe religion atheism
There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this. Bill O'Reilly
atheism done evidence-of-god
If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us. Barbara Ehrenreich
party gun atheism
The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.